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Colt® Dynamic Connections Ethernet support: Overview
With Dynamic Connections Ethernet, you can provision real-time, layer-2 network connections between one of your locations (an Ethernet endpoint device) and partner interconnects, including cloud providers such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle. You can also create virtual cross connects to Equinix so you can access additional cloud service providers such as Alibaba, Salesforce, Webex, Five9, IBM Cloud 2.0, and more. Connections are billed hourly or monthly and require no long-term contracts.
Managing Dynamic Connections Ethernet
Use Control Center to create and manage connections:
Managing connections
Creating connections to your locations
- Creating a connection between two of your locations
- Creating a connection from your location to AWS Hosted Connections
- Creating a connection from your location to Microsoft Azure
- Creating a connection from your location to Microsoft Azure Gov
- Creating a connection from your location to Equinix Fabric
- Creating a connection from your location to Google
- Creating a connection from your location to Oracle
- Creating a connection from your location to Oracle Gov
- Viewing the status of available locations
Creating connections to AWS
- Creating a connection from your location to AWS Hosted Connections
- Creating a connection between AWS Hosted Connections and Equinix Fabric
- Creating a connection between AWS Hosted Connections and Google
- Creating a connection between AWS Hosted Connections and Oracle
- Creating a connection between two AWS Hosted Connections
Creating connections to Azure
- Creating a connection from your location to Microsoft Azure
- Creating a connection from your location to Microsoft Azure Gov
- Creating a connection between Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Azure Gov
- Creating a connection between two Microsoft Azure locations
- Creating a connection between two Microsoft Azure Gov locations
For connections to Microsoft Azure, your equipment must support 802.1ad (Q-in-Q). Before creating a connection, we recommend configuring your router for Q-in-Q.
Creating connections to Equinix Fabric
- Creating a connection from your location to Equinix Fabric
- Creating a connection between Equinix Fabric and AWS Hosted Connections
- Creating a connection between Equinix Fabric and Google
- Creating a connection between Equinix Fabric and Oracle
Use Equinix Fabric to connect to cloud service providers such as Alibaba, Salesforce, Webex, Five9, IBM Cloud 2.0, and more.
Creating connections to Google
Creating connections to Oracle
- Creating a connection from your location to Oracle
- Creating a connection from your location to Oracle Gov
- Creating a connection between Oracle and AWS Hosted Connections
- Creating a connection between Oracle and Equinix Fabric
- Creating a connection between Oracle and Google
- Creating a connection between two Oracle locations
- Creating a connection between two Oracle Gov locations
Classes of service for Dynamic Connections Ethernet
Higher classes of service offer higher availability SLAs and allow you to increase traffic prioritization for your EVC:
- Basic (best effort): The service may be oversubscribed on the Colt network.
- Enhanced (mid class): Enhanced EVCs (ethernet virtual circuits) can still be oversubscribed like Basic class of service EVCs; however, traffic is marked with an internal class of service marking which will prioritize your traffic over best-effort traffic during times of congestion. For EVCs with this class of service, bandwidth is not reserved on the Colt network and traffic will not take priority over real-time traffic in the network.
- Dedicated (real time): The quality of service offering with highest priority on the Colt network. In addition, Colt reserves the bandwidth for this EVC across the network on each ring that the EVC touches. Once it is dedicated to you, that bandwidth (and the corresponding CE-VLANs) sits in reserve regardless of how much bandwidth you use.
Dynamic Connections Ethernet support
- For issues creating a connection, open a portal support ticket in Control Center.
- For issues with active connections, open a repair ticket in Control Center.
